Jeffrey Banks wrote:
I will visit my rigger and learn a bit more about opening my chute for
inspection. I think with personal knowlege of my chute I probably
could of opened it without a mess.

You would have ended up with a package about 4 times as large as
before....

Sadly, as in most "zero tolerance" type situations, these people are
forced to act "stupid" and follow their interpretation of the rules "to
the letter".

Here's how they treat invalids:
http://reason.com/brickbats/bb-2006.shtml